AI researchers rediscovering 50-year-old side-channel attacks, just add "but it's an ASI"
nptacek · x · 2026-09-19
Security commentator xlr8harder mocks AI researchers for treating half-century-old hacking techniques like side-channel attacks as novel discoveries and simply appending "but it's an ASI" to the end — a jab at AI safety discourse that ignores accumulated traditional security knowledge.
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